ETHEL, a string quartet from New York City, released "The River" in collaboration with Native American artist Robert Mirabal. The album features a mixture of traditional Native American music, indigenous sounds from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, and classical strings.

A remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become the world's second dark sky sanctuary for star gazers. The rapid spread of light pollution prevents more than half of the world's population from seeing the Milky Way.

This year, an increasing number of Central American attempted to enter the US illegally. Now, as many are deported back home, there are concerns that due process was not served while they were held in detention facilities in the United States.

"Operation Streamline" is the federal government's program to fast-track immigration cases. It's certainly made it easier to prosecute migrants — or put them in jail. But critics say everything else about the program seems confused.

It's been called the worst video game ever made — so bad the manufacturer went so far as to ship its whole stash to a remote landfill in New Mexico, never to be seen again. Or so they thought. The treasure trove of discarded ET video game cartridges was uncovered in New Mexico recently.

Fertilizer is perhaps the most common ingredient in IEDs in Afghanistan, Iraq and has also been used in bombs in the United States and around the world. Scientists have tried for years to make ammonium nitrate fertilizer less detonable without success. Until now.

The fertilizer ammonium nitrate is cheap, abundant, and highly detonable. It's a key ingredient in many IEDs. Recently, a team in New Mexico has come up with a way to make the fertilizer less explosive.